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According to a recent survey conducted by Freedonia, the world plastic pipes market is set to record 8.5% annual growth until 2017 at least, reaching a...

The RadiciGroup’s participation in the Feiplastic fair, running from 20 to 24 May in São Paulo (Brazil), focuses on a selection of special products. The Radiflam S, Radiflam A and Radiflam B flame-retardant engineering polymers based on PA 6, PA 6.6 and PBT resins...

The third edition of the Polymer Insights conference organised by ChemOrbis will take place on May 30 at the Sheraton Milan Malpensa Airport Hotel & Conference Centre. For the organising company, this event represents an opportunity to photograph the...

Through an investment of 300,000 euros, Fainplast has built a new research and development lab at its headquarters in Ascoli Piceno, Italy. This facility, which covers an area of around 200 square metres, also incorporates a new quality control department specifically...

A second turnkey plant for the production of "reefers” (special refrigerated containers used for the medium and long range transport of foodstuffs) was commissioned to Cannon by Maersk Container Industry. The new production line, which will require a total investment of...

The São Paulo fairgrounds are set to host, from May 20 to 24, the fourteenth Feiplastic fair, the main event in this sector in South America that, until the previous edition, went by the name of Brasilplast. Around 40 Italian companies will be taking part in the event as part of the national pavillion coordinated by Assocomaplast, the Italian...

Manufactured by Moretto, the Te-Ko temperature controller is available in the water or oil versions and is specially designed for the daily work with an injection moulding machine even under the most severe operating conditions. Ever since 2009, the production of TE KO systems has more...

With optYlayer, Syncro offers a thickness sensor for plastic films which combines and integrates three different technologies: capacitive, inductive and optical. The addition of an LCI optical sensor (Low Coherence Interferometry), in combination with the performance of the previous...

On May 2 five leading packaging companies in North America and Europe announced they intend to combine in order to operate as one leader under the banner of Exopack Holdings, headquartered in Luxembourg. The combined business will have 63 plants, 8,650 employees and aggregate...

The TH-M6 control unit developed by Thermoplay can control up to 252 temperature zones, performing continuous check on power absorption of each zone allowing fast intervention in case of plastics leakage from an nozzle. The control unit recognizes and signals: anomalies in the...

On the next 7th of June, AISR group, representing the rotational moulding Italian firms, part of Federazione Gomma Plastica, will hold in Italy a day-long seminar on the rotomoulding materials. The seminar will take place at Cesap (Centro europeo sviluppo applicazioni plastiche), located in...

A thermoforming mould manufacturer, Self makes its products using almost exclusively aluminium castings, which is considered the most convenient solution. The sheet thermoforming process, taking advantage of cast or machined aluminium moulds, is adopted in the manufacture of small batches...

The plastic packaging producer Kobusch is ready to conclude its planned expansion in the field of rPET with the installation of a new inline sheet facility at Stanley (United Kingdom). A Vacurema recycling plant supplied by Erema is the central element of the...

Today plastic packaging design threatens new EU recycling targets. Careless design often leads to incomplete emptying of a package and what about different combinations of polymers/materials which are incompatible for an efficient recycling process? The new challenge should be that recyclability...

The new high-performance system developed and patented by Tecnodinamica for the generation of dry vacuum in EPS vertical block moulding machines does not need any water or other media in order to cool down the condensation tank and the vacuum pump. The liquid ring pumps...

The headquarters of Tria America in Charlotte (North Carolina), the US branch of the Italian company Tria, have been recently enlarged with a new test facility. The North American customers of the company can now send their materials to be subjected to trials or come directly to the new structure...

Italian PET producer, Mossi & Ghisolfi group, has recently announced the signing of a licensee agreement with Alpek for IntegRex PTA technology. The technology will be used in the construction of Mossi & Ghisolfi's previously announced 1,200,000 tonnes/year PTA plant at Corpus Christi...

The world market for composites reached a value in the neighbourhood of 82 billion euro in 2012 with an average annual growth rate of 6%. These are just two of the estimates put forward by the organizer of the specialized exhibition-convention...

The twenty-seventh edition of Chinaplas is scheduled this May 20-23 in the Guangzhou fairgrounds. The annual tradeshow, an itinerant event alternating between Guangzhou and Shanghai, represents Asia's preeminent event for the plastics market. Over 50 Italian companies will take part within the...

Corotating twin screw extruders customised and configured according to the individual processor's needs are now delivered by Maris on the basis both of a proprietary know-how acquired during its fifty-year activity and the in-house designing and manufacturing of each single mechanical item. An...